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April 21, 2009

Congratulations to She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named!

Who is She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named? To refresh your recollection, look back at this post, which discusses political dynamics on the fabulously fractious Ninth Circuit:

Judge [Stephen] Reinhardt is the Emperor rather than Darth Vader because Darth Vader's position is already taken: by the brilliant, cold-as-ice Judge Marsha Berzon.

A member of the Elect, Judge Berzon
uses the light-saber of her chilly intellect to cut down all who stand
in her way. President Clinton spent a tremendous amount of political
capital pushing Judge Berzon's nomination to the Ninth Circuit through
the Senate, despite strong opposition from the Republicans, because he
knew that only she was qualified to take up the mantle of Judge
Reinhardt. After Judge Reinhardt's inevitable passing, only Judge
Berzon can provide comparably courageous and cunning leadership for the
left wing of the Ninth Circuit. Article III Groupie is both obsessed
with and deathly afraid of Judge Berzon, who will no doubt cast her
dark shadow over the pages of UTR in the not-too-distant future.

She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named may be one of our nation's most fearsomely liberal jurists - but she's also now the mother of a Pulitzer Prize winner! From the AP:

Las Vegas Sun reporter
Alexandra Berzon and her editors said Monday that they believe the
Pulitzer Prize-winning stories they produced about construction safety
brought an end to a spate of worker deaths at resort projects on the
Las Vegas Strip.

"I think it's great recognition for the newspaper
and for everyone," said Berzon, who estimated she wrote more than 50
stories on the subject.

Like her mother, whose legal credentials are blinding in their splendor, the Berzonspawn is something of a prodigy. She's only 29 years old - a far cry from the grizzled gumshoes often favored by Pulitzer pickers - and she has been at the Las Vegas Sun for just over a year (since December 2007).

Clearly Alex Berzon is far better at writing and reporting than she is at carrying coffee. Now that she's a Pulitzer winner, presumably she'll have interns to fetch coffee for her.